Quote from: jupiviv on Apr 15, 2024, 03:18 AMTo answer your question, democratic management is necessarily rational.

I haven't found that to be true, since a democracy is composed of people and people aren't always rational.  In fact, as often as not they are irrational, governed by emotions and seduced by their appetites.  They are easily habituated and addiction prone.  The are not created equal in many respects, from physical attributes like size and strength to a range of intelligence that goes from dumb as rocks to theoretical physicists and social, religious and mystical philosophers.  They have hormonal differences that make some incredibly aggressive and others ridiculously passive.  Half carry & birth new ones, the other half doesn't. Some are followers who if you don't tell the to tie their shoes they will trip every day, others are leaders who won't do anything anybody else tells them to do.  etc, etc, etc.

Democracy tends to fail because of all of these inequalities, and you can't legislate them out of existence.  The larger and more complex the society becomes, the greater becomes the problems inherent in all these differences.  Our genetic evolution and reproductive strategy is closest to Bonobos, and anthropologically speaking, the best we ever did on a social level was as small groups of Hunter-Gatherers.  With the advent of agriculture and large civilizations, a whole slew of moral imperatives, rules and social structures have evolved to keep these unwieldy size groupings of people organized, and all of them are flawed.  The Nation State was bad enough, Globalism has made it totally unsustainable.  Most of the problems we have as a society actually predate industrialization and Marx, they go back to the dawn of civilization in prehistoric times.

Far as my claims for what human nature is, it is to live as Bonobos do.  But ya can't do that with 8 Billion people infesting every square inch of habitable land.  If were going to have a society of Homo Saps that accurately reflects human nature, we'll need a serious reduction in population.

RE